David Niven

...friend (you'll enjoy Bill's perspective on his many good friends, from Ronald Reagan and Claire Booth Luce to Roger Moore and David Niven), mayoral candidate, Bach aficionado . . . How the life of the larger-than-life Bill Buckley can be...

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...a complication of the MG that plagued him in his last years. Other late high-profile sufferers include actors Laurence Olivier, David Niven and the three-times world snooker champion, John Spencer, who was forced to retire early from the sport...

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Oscar went solo throughout the 1960s, perhaps recovering from the 1959 Oscars that boasted a half-dozen hosts: Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Tony Randall and Mort Sahl. In all likelihood, Streep couldn't be invited...

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It's the preserve of the children of the very rich - Prince Rainier was schooled there, as was the Aga Khan, and the children of David Niven, Diana Ross and Liz Taylor. Samantha, though, does not seem to have flourished. Reports from...

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...acceptable shape. Casting was an even lengthier process. Having looked at the likes of Ronald Colman, William Powell and David Niven for the role of Maxim, they settled on Laurence Olivier, hot from his success in Wuthering Heights. The...

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...popular natural drug illegal so that the mafia, and their benefactors in high places, rake in the mullah? British actor David Niven recalled in his wonderful book "Moon's A Balloon" how he indulged in bootlegging in America during the...

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...part over the decades-long run of the franchise: the ruggedly handsome Sean Connery, the cocky George Lazenby, the sophisticated David Niven, the suave Roger Moore, the forgettable Timothy Dalton, the charming Pierce Brosnan, and the...

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...and directors taken between 1960-67, include Greta Garbo dangling off the side of the Onassis yacht in the south of France and David Niven reading a newspaper on the Lido. Before she produced films such as Investigation of a Citizen...

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London, Sep 2 : Brit actor Sir Roger Moore has revealed that even though he was very close pals with late actor David Niven, and both had acted in James Bond flicks, they never discussed the 007 agent. Moore, 81, who enjoyed a 12-year...

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He may not always have been a decent man but at least David Niven tried to be one, writes Margaret Carragher SHAM MARRIAGE: David Niven with his second wife Hjordis on board the ocean liner Queen Mary in 1948 Sunday July 19 2009 In...

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